Maximus The Greek: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Maximus the Hagiorite
Born	1480 • Árta • Greece
Died	1556 (aged 76) • near Moscow • Russia

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Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples

French humanist and theologian

Portrait of Desiderius Erasmus, shown in dark robes and cap, writing with a quill at a desk, after Quinten Massijs, oil on panel, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Erasmus

Dutch humanist

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John Scotus Erigena

Irish philosopher

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Demetrius Cydones

Byzantine scholar and statesman

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Maximus Planudes

Byzantine scholar and theologian

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Bessarion

Byzantine theologian

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Ambrose Of Camaldoli

Italian translator

Chrysoloras

Manuel Chrysoloras

Greek scholar

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Isidore Of Kiev

Greek Orthodox patriarch

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Gennadios II Scholarios

patriarch of Constantinople

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Eugenius Bulgaris

Greek theologian

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Maximus Margunios

Greek Orthodox bishop

John Wycliffe

John Wycliffe

English theologian

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Franz Rosenzweig

German philosopher

Engraved portrait of Marsilio Ficino wearing a cap and cloak, shown in three-quarter view looking over his shoulder, with detailed lines and shading.

Marsilio Ficino

Italian philosopher and theologian

Theodore Beza

Theodore Beza

French theologian

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Isaac Of Stella

English philosopher and theologian

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Tyrannius Rufinus

Roman priest and writer

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Philoxenus of Mabbug

Syrian bishop

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Nina Berberova

Russian-American writer

Agathon (centre) greeting guests in "Plato's Symposium" oil on canvas by Anselm Feuerbach, 1869; in the Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany.

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